Lawson Eng

Dr. Lawson Eng, MD, SM, FRCPC is a Medical Oncologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. He completed his medical school, internal medicine and medical oncology residency at the University of Toronto and completed his fellowship through the Royal College - Clinician Investigator Program where he jointly completed a Master of Science (SM) at the Harvard School of Public Health in epidemiology focusing on population-level data, data science and outcomes research, and his clinical and research fellowship at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

His clinical practice focuses on lung, gastrointestinal and head and neck cancers. His research interests are in cancer survivorship and supportive care with a focus on health behaviours (in particular, tobacco control), patient-reported outcomes, real-world population-level data, outcomes research and health services research with a goal towards improving the care of cancer survivors. He serves on the Cancer Care Ontario – Smoking Cessation Research and Knowledge Translation Committee, MASCC Survivorship Working Group, and the International Association of the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) - Tobacco Control Committee. To date, he has published over 45 manuscripts in oncology and has over 120 abstract presentations at international meetings. He has received multiple American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Merit Awards, Novartis Oncology Young Canadian Investigator Awards, an ASCO Young Investigator Award (2020), an IASLC Early Career Award, a MASCC Young Investigator Award (2018), the 2019 Canadian Association of Medical Oncology (CAMO) Fellowship Award and both a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Publication Prize and Fellowship Award. His research has been funded by CAMO, ASCO, CIHR and the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute.